God’s Delight in Worship

God truly does delight in worship. If God is more pleased by practices other than worship, then it is very odd that worship saturates biblical descriptions of heaven. These angelic declarations of glory to God remind us that through our own worship, we join with the angelic choirs and participate even now in the heavenly ascription of glory to our Lord. This is part of the wonder of the pillar of cloud settling upon Israel’s tabernacle and temple: the cloud, a replica of the heavenly court where God sits enthroned among the heavenly host, filled the place of worship on earth. The worship of the heavenly temple and the worship of the earthly temple in some marvelous way were united as one.